Events in the year 1857 in Norway.
Incumbents Monarch: Oscar I. First Minister: Jørgen Herman Vogt
Events 6 June – Sophia of Nassau marries the future King Oscar II of Sweden-Norway The town of Steinkjer is founded. The town of Skudeneshavn is founded.
Births
4 January – John N. Kildahl, Norwegian-American Lutheran church minister, author and educator (died 1920) 15 March – Christian Michelsen, shipping magnate, politician and Prime Minister of Norway (died 1925) 6 April – Per Sivle, poet, novelist, newspaper editor (died 1904). 13 April – Fanny Ingvoldstad, painter (died 1935). 27 April – Theodor Kittelsen, artist (died 1914) 8 May – Agnes Mathilde Wergeland, Norwegian-American historian and poet (died 1914) 2 June – Urban Jacob Rasmus Børresen, rear admiral (died 1943) 28 July – Andreas Thidemand Carlsen Ruud, politician 19 August – Haldor Børve, architect (died 1933). 21 October- Frederick William Cappelen, Norwegian American architect and civil engineer (died 1921) 10 November – Aad J. Vinje, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court (died 1929) 18 November – Gunnar Heiberg, playwright (died 1929)
Full date unknown Waldemar Hansteen, architect (died 1921) Johan Peter Jacobson, politician
Deaths 16 April – Ferdinand Carl Maria Wedel-Jarlsberg, commanding general of the Norwegian Army (born 1781) 11 June – Jens Rynning, priest (born 1778) 14 October – Johan Christian Dahl, painter (born 1788) 28 October – Hother Erich Werner Bøttger, politician (born 1801)
Full date unknown Diderik Bøgvad, politician (born 1792)
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